On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 4:14 PM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:

Sometime ago, I had asked of a way to say "all of us", as if in "all of us like cats".

In particular, I had asked if we could write {vIghro' DImuSHa' Hoch}. And as we had said back then, we can't say something like this because it would violate the accord rule.

maj.

However, I just had an idea, which I would like to discuss.

Why not write:

{vIghro'mey DImuSHa' maH Hoch} ?
all of us love cats

Does it violate any rule ? I think it is correct and grammatical. Let alone that we could place an {-'e'} on the {Hoch} for added emphasis, thus writing {vIghro'mey DImuSHa' maH Hoch'e'}.

I think there's a few instances of "all of us" in paq'batlh that were just translated as {maH} or some first-person-plural prefix, so you could probably get away with just {maH}.

But if it's important to convey the specific notion of "all of us", then {maH Hoch} "the entirety of us" is probably an acceptable way to express that basic idea. If {maH Hoch} works, then {Hochmaj} might be even better.

That said, as you've got it written, it still violates the rule of accord. The subject is {Hoch}, not {maH}, so you'd still use a third-person-subject prefix. {vIghro'mey muSHa' maH Hoch/Hochmaj}.